Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: Add CONFIG_BUILTIN_FIRMWARE option

[Johannes Berg]

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 15:18 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:13 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > If Michael wants to serve his firmware blobs from an SQL database,
> > he'd use a simple table like this:
> > 
> > CREATE TABLE firmware (
> >         ID INTEGER,
> >         name VARCHAR(100),
> >         data BLOB
> > );
> 
> That's fairly much what the in-kernel firmware support does (just
> serving firmware from a flat table using the string as a key, that is.
> If I tried using SQL in-kernel you should take me out back and shoot me,
> of course).

Yeah, and only that makes sense, if you ask me. And as you said in the
other mail, adding a module name disambiguation policy in userspace
would mean that two different modules would be allowed to both request
the firmware key "foobar" and not have a problem, while it would be
pretty hard to support it with the built-in firmware option.

johannes

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